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THIS NEEDS TO BE STICKIED, OR BUMPED UNTIL A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE HAVE SEEN IT.
Yesterday I was scammed. I knew something wasn't right, but I wasn't thinking about all the possibilities.
I made an auction for a hard drive on ebay a few days ago. Then, yesterday someone bought the drive using buy it now. They paid me right away too. Then, they sent me an email saying that they had no need for it anymore, and wanted their money back. He did this all within hours, and on the weekend, so there was no time for me to ship it.
I thought about it, and discussed it over with some fellow traders, and came to the conclusion that I would refund his money, minus shipping since I would have to relist it, and for my lost time. I sent him and email, and he agreed, so I sent him back $25, and kept $5 for my troubles. I was making a profit of $5, so I was happy.
He then kept emailing me, trying to get me to buy things from his store, and he would say how he makes so much money selling things to companies like Compusa. I would laugh to myself, knowing that he was obviously trying to get me to buy things like LCDs, then not ship them, and I wasn't going to fall for that one!
Then, today I get an email from paypal saying that I have received bad money, and they will take it away from me. They took the full $30 away from me, even though I had paid him back, so I lost $56.17. PayPal was nice enough to give me a $1.17 fee when they took the $30 out.
He sucessfully scammed me, and so far paypal has not done anythng to protect me. I used PP balance, and not CC for the refund, so its all upto PP to protect me now. I will update this, and let people know how it works out for me, but everyone should be VERY careful when they return someone's money, or maybe not even return it at all.
The user had 0 feedback, but had bought the domain of a computer business and was using it as his, atleast that's what I think from the information I've gathered.
If this thread has saved anyone from being scammed, please let me know, or post it in here.
NEW: It goes even further now. The alleged scammer replied to an email saying that he was scammed by someone else, and I'm seeing the falllout of that, and he is completely legit. He also told me to watch what I say, which sounded like a threat, so I'm going to back out of it now, paypal has all of his information, including emails now, so we'll see how it goes. What's funny is how he says he has so much experience selling stuff, yet he has 0 feedback. It'll be interesting to see if PayPal says he's the scammer or not, either way I have learned a lesson once more. I learn things the hard way, its my nature I guess.
Yesterday I was scammed. I knew something wasn't right, but I wasn't thinking about all the possibilities.
I made an auction for a hard drive on ebay a few days ago. Then, yesterday someone bought the drive using buy it now. They paid me right away too. Then, they sent me an email saying that they had no need for it anymore, and wanted their money back. He did this all within hours, and on the weekend, so there was no time for me to ship it.
I thought about it, and discussed it over with some fellow traders, and came to the conclusion that I would refund his money, minus shipping since I would have to relist it, and for my lost time. I sent him and email, and he agreed, so I sent him back $25, and kept $5 for my troubles. I was making a profit of $5, so I was happy.
He then kept emailing me, trying to get me to buy things from his store, and he would say how he makes so much money selling things to companies like Compusa. I would laugh to myself, knowing that he was obviously trying to get me to buy things like LCDs, then not ship them, and I wasn't going to fall for that one!
Then, today I get an email from paypal saying that I have received bad money, and they will take it away from me. They took the full $30 away from me, even though I had paid him back, so I lost $56.17. PayPal was nice enough to give me a $1.17 fee when they took the $30 out.
He sucessfully scammed me, and so far paypal has not done anythng to protect me. I used PP balance, and not CC for the refund, so its all upto PP to protect me now. I will update this, and let people know how it works out for me, but everyone should be VERY careful when they return someone's money, or maybe not even return it at all.
The user had 0 feedback, but had bought the domain of a computer business and was using it as his, atleast that's what I think from the information I've gathered.
If this thread has saved anyone from being scammed, please let me know, or post it in here.
NEW: It goes even further now. The alleged scammer replied to an email saying that he was scammed by someone else, and I'm seeing the falllout of that, and he is completely legit. He also told me to watch what I say, which sounded like a threat, so I'm going to back out of it now, paypal has all of his information, including emails now, so we'll see how it goes. What's funny is how he says he has so much experience selling stuff, yet he has 0 feedback. It'll be interesting to see if PayPal says he's the scammer or not, either way I have learned a lesson once more. I learn things the hard way, its my nature I guess.
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